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EAST-INDIA COMPANY. which I have not yet heard any Director bold enough to To' return to afTert. Charter of Plunder. my it, with all It a full confideration appears to me, upon of 19 accompaniments, that its the Directors were exceedingly unlucky in for it having obtained it certainly does ; not convey any Right of which they were not pofTeiTed before by on the contrary, but, > their bringing forth this new by had the framing of and it, charter, men, who thofe learned fo explained fo underftood by the King when he gave it his Royal fanction, they have leflened the validity of King WILLIAM'S charter, by which their future acquiiitions all been go, fecured to in the " " *' *' the them, to have words can moft unlimited manner.

Bolts's account of the ceffion of the Zemindarjr of Bulwant Sing to/SoujAH AL DOULAH. Cottfideratiw : in Jfaft-fndia afairs. Chap. Hi. page 30. EAST-INDIA COMPANY. which I have not yet heard any Director bold enough to To' return to afTert. Charter of Plunder. my it, with all It a full confideration appears to me, upon of 19 accompaniments, that its the Directors were exceedingly unlucky in for it having obtained it certainly does ; not convey any Right of which they were not pofTeiTed before by on the contrary, but, > their bringing forth this new by had the framing of and it, charter, men, who thofe learned fo explained fo underftood by the King when he gave it his Royal fanction, they have leflened the validity of King WILLIAM'S charter, by which their future acquiiitions all been go, fecured to in the " " *' *' the them, to have words can moft unlimited manner.

How an Adi: of parliament might limit His Majefty's known prerogative of far making peace or war in any particular not take upon part of the globe, I will me to enquire. The enquiry foreign to the prefent fubjedt, is . Act of parliament can be here The Right altogether as no fuch alledged. of appointing a file Plenipotentiary ON 22 THE RIGHTS OF THE tentiary for treating as with Indian, with other Princes, His Majefty in veiled of fuch a is -, as Well certainly ftill but the excrcifc Right would not fully anfwer His Majefty 's gracious purpofe, which is to affift the Eaft-India Company, and to them aflift way as their own own affairs mall point in fuch a knowledge in their out to the judgment of his Servant, in council and in concurrence with theirs.